| 31. | For strong verbs, the-t is always required.
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| 32. | Arguably, all seven classes of strong verbs are represented in Gothic by at least one preterite-present verb.
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| 33. | The development of weak verbs in Germanic meant that the strong verb system ceased to be productive.
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| 34. | Germanic umlaut and Germanic strong verb.
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| 35. | Regular strong verbs were all conjugated roughly the same, with the main differences being in the stem vowel.
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| 36. | Germanic actively derived strong verbs by applying a suffix, which later caused umlaut, to a past tense form.
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| 37. | Strong verbs form their past tenses by changing the vowel of the stem, a process known as ablaut.
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| 38. | The opposing tendency, the loss of strong verbs generally, is a form of levelling, where irregularities are eliminated.
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| 39. | Like today, Old English had fewer strong verbs, and many of these have over time decayed into weak forms.
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| 40. | However, as in all other strong verbs, consonant alternations were almost entirely eliminated in favour of the voiceless alternants.
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